Roll The Dice Rattery

This is Fern. Fern is...chaotic...at the best of time. 😂

Fern is an Agouti Varigated Berkshire (A/A H/h V/-, carrying -/r aka Ruby Eye Dilute or RED)

I mean it when I say Fern is chaotic. She is a mega kleptomaniac. She gets it from her mother, Killa, but Fern takes it to a whole new level. Fern is a large part of the reason we now use hoppers on our cages to feed our rats, as she would steal and hoard the food blocks as if she was a dragon hoarding gold. 😂

Not only does she hoard food (amongst other things), she likes to throw bedding out of the cage and make an enormous mess, and she is the reason we use cheap dishtowels/face washers as hammocks - because she chews them to shreds and absolutely destroys them.

Despite her being a bit of a turd, Fern is my baby. She is from our very first litter, and holds a very special place in my heart. She may be a chaotic gremlin, but she is my chaotic gremlin. 💜🐀

Watch out, here comes Lupè!

This odd looking boy is a Mink Rex Varigated Hooded (a/a m/m h/h V/- Re/-)

Lupe is one of the handful of Rex boys we have in our breeding program. Rex coats are curly, and are more coarse than standard coat rats. They even have curly whiskers!

Breeding a Rex to a Standard coat rat, you should end up with an even split of Rex and Standard babies!

While we have only had 2 Rex litters currently, we are looking forward to having more and working on our Rex line.

Introducing Badger!

Badger has sired 2 litters for us already, and he has produced some absolutely stunning babies both times. Lottie, over at on Instagram is one of his children, and you can see what cutie she is! He is also the father to Xanny and Bandit.

Badger is a Black Hooded, (a/a h/h and carries -/r and -/p, aka Ruby Eye Dilute or RED, and Pink Eye Dilute or PED).

Badger is a phenomenal breeder, and raiser of our babies. Around 4/5 weeks old our baby boys are moved from the maternity cage, to the paternity cage (the grow out cage for our boys), and we often have Badger in our paternity cage to help socialize our young boys. Badger is one of our few boys that actually still plays with the babies, and let's them "dominate" him (think how lions play with their cubs and let them win).

We are excited to see where this boy leads us in our breeding program 😊

Figured I'd introduce the man, the myth, the legend, Freddy Fazbear! (aka Frebbie)

Freddy is a bit odd genetically. Whilst he *looks* like a Fawn, genetically, he is a Cinnamon, or Mink Agouti. A/a r/r m/m H/H (and carries -/p, which is the Pink Eye Dilute aka PED). This caused a lot of controversy online, and we were told it was impossible for him to be anything other than a Fawn (Agouti Ruby Eye Dilute) - but Freddy has black eyes, not ruby.

"That's impossible, he must be a really dark ruby" we were told, despite checking eye colour numerous times in various ways, and comparing him to some of the dark ruby eyed rats we have.
"He is definitely black eyes, and has thrown Mink in nearly all his litters, he is not dark ruby" we say.
"It's not possible" we keep being told...

Well clearly, it is. Rat coat colours can range wildly in each "label", and that's okay. That's what makes rat breeding fun!